You may be thinking you can avoid many of the pitfalls of soda by switching to diet varieties, but the artificial sweeteners they contain are in many ways
worse than fructose.
Not exact matches
Dates have an enormously high sugar content, and yes, agave is even
worse than honey in terms of
fructose content which is probably not what the health food industry would have you believe!
(I just read that agave is as
bad or
worse than high
fructose corn syrup and my biliruben levels have returned to normal after cutting it out of my diet)
Agave is mostly
fructose (the
bad stuff we get too much of) and is more processed
than white sugar.
Agave, may be *
worse *
than hi
fructose corn syrup: RT @dancingdivala: RT @foodrenegade Agave Nectar: Good or
Bad?
They want to avoid well documented dangerous sweeteners like HFCS (high
fructose corn syrup) but are unaware that most agave is actually
WORSE than HFCS.
High
fructose corn syrup is no
worse than regular sugar.
Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center now have found that mice on a fatty diet who were given high levels of
fructose in their diet suffered much
worse metabolic effects
than those given similar calories of glucose (the other component in table sugar).
Another MAJOR part of why
fructose is
worse than other sugars is because it is «isocaloric but not isometabolic.»
Artificial sweeteners can actually be far
worse for you
than sugar and
fructose, and there is scientific evidence to back this up.
It's even
worse than the dreaded high
fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and it's especially
bad for your acne.
In case you don't know, all sugar is
bad in high amounts, but glucose is far healthier
than fructose.
Even if you think it is only empty calories (it's way
worse than that), you'd have to be kind of an idiot to believe that
fructose should be «endorsed again» as healthy.
This is because it has a higher
fructose content
than other forms of sugar (which are also
bad in large quantities).
(I just read that agave is as
bad or
worse than high
fructose corn syrup and my biliruben levels have returned to normal after cutting it out of my diet)
We actually did an informal study and found the most popular agave brands ranged from 59 to 67 percent pure
fructose, far
worse than HFCS.
Though not as
bad as High
Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), the evidence is mounting that it is addictive and more harmful
than sugar.
It's far
worse than high
fructose corn syrup at roughly 60:40.
HFCS is made up of about 55 %
fructose and 45 % glucose so it gets a
bad rep for having more
fructose than glucose but really the proportions are not too unequal.
It's on the
bad list because it actually contains more
fructose than any other sweetener, including high
fructose corn syrup.
There seem to be a lot of individuals within both the high and low carbohydrate diet camps saying that
fructose is
bad for you — that it will raise your triglycerides and uric acid levels as well as potentially cause fatty liver disease because it is metabolized differently
than glucose.
This industrial sweetener is currently the darling of health conscious crowd but is best avoided for a multitude of reasons as discussed in «
Worse than We Thought: The Lowdown on High
Fructose Corn Syrup and Agave «Nectar»» (Wise Traditions, Spring 2009).
You're Both Snobby and a Racist 4 Reasons to Avoid High
Fructose Corn Syrup Is Agave
Worse Than High
Fructose Corn Syrup?